China is striving to expand its Covid-19 vaccine development with 20 candidates being tested in clinical trials.“China is in the world‘s first phalanx in terms of the number of Covid-19 vaccines in the pipeline,” said Zheng Zhongwei, director o...

South Korea’s air force chief resigned on Friday, apologising and taking responsibility for the death of a member of the force who took her own life, according to her family, after being sexually harassed by a colleague.Lee Seong-yong offered to st...

As Indonesia continues to bury its Covid-19 dead, the families behind the official statistics have been left to count the costs amid concerns of a rise in cases outside the usual hotspots on the island of Java.Indonesia’s most populous island has b...

A 17-year-old school pupil with no travel history has tested preliminary-positive for a coronavirus variant, with the case potentially ending Hong Kong’s 42-day streak of no local untraceable infections.It was unclear on Friday if the girl, who liv...

It was over three decades ago when Lei Yu, a recent graduate of archaeology studies at the time, joined a mission to excavate two pits full of bronze age treasures accidentally discovered by a group of kiln factory workers in 1986.His only tool was a...

New Zealand’s top court on Friday left open the possibility that a man could be extradited to China to face murder charges in a landmark case that has big diplomatic implications.It remains uncertain whether the extradition of Kyung Yup Kim will pr...

Taiwan’s drive to secure Covid-19 vaccines has received a fresh boost with both Japan and the United States offering to provide supplies as it fights a widening outbreak that saw 474 new infections and 21 new deaths on Friday.A shipment of 1.24 mil...

Hong Kong police shut down part of Victoria Park on Friday to stop people from gathering for a banned candlelight vigil commemorating the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, while also setting up roadblocks at major thoroughfares to c...

The commander of the United States Pacific Air Forces has accused China of seeking to return to the era of vassal states, likening the Communist Party to Chinese emperors that demanded fealty from their neighbours.During a conference call with Asia-b...

With a busy job that left little time to think about starting a family, Erica decided to sidestep Singapore’s ban on egg freezing for a chance to have children later in life.The advertising executive is among a growing number of women travelling ov...

US intelligence officials found no evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena observed by US Navy aviators in recent years were alien spacecraft, but the sightings remain unexplained in a highly anticipated government report, The New York Times said...

The US Navy is not ready to do repairs on vessels damaged in battle with a great-power rival like China or Russia, a US government watchdog reported.“The ability to repair and maintain ships plays a critical role in sustaining Navy readiness,” th...

China needs to stay cool-headed in formulating its new strategy to engage with the US and avoid an emotional handling of disputes that could lead to bigger problems, Chinese state media said in the wake of two high-level talks between the two countri...

Deteriorating relations, including trade-related friction, have made normal operations for Australian exporters in China “impossible”, according to a report from a leading network of business interests.Exporters see the need to pivot from China i...

A former top British judge has revealed she will quit Hong Kong’s highest court when her first term expires next month, citing concerns over the Beijing-imposed national security law, according to a media report.Baroness Brenda Hale, president of t...

Eric Yung and his aunt, Patricia Lee, have seen a lot from their vantage point at Union Square Flowers, the stand they run just off Market Street in San Francisco. But last month, when the two saw a man rush by with a large knife in his grip, they kn...

From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders and recycled personal protective equipment, India’s coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly consequences.Komal Taneja...

Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun warned that a prolonged trade deadlock between the United States and China threatens the comeback of its 737 MAX and, ultimately, the company’s long-standing role as an industrial champion.China will be one of the world’s ...

Former US vice-president Mike Pence said that he wasn’t sure that he and former president Donald Trump would ever see “eye to eye” over what happened on January 6 but that he would “always be proud of what we accomplished for the American peo...

Dozens of staff at Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission are facing the threat of dismissal after failing a “nationalism” test, in a move critics say could undermine the fight against graft in the world’s third largest democracy.More ...

SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile, the manufacturer of China’s bestselling electric vehicle (EV), is to launch a new minivan, hoping to tap future demand from larger families under the country’s new three-child policy.“SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile heeds t...

HSBC, the city’s biggest currency-issuing bank, plans to reopen its offices to all employees in Hong Kong beginning on Monday as the fourth wave of Covid-19 infections subsides and a push to return to the office gathers steam globally. Staff will ...

Malaysia’s health authorities have raised concerns about a growing number of coronavirus deaths and serious cases involving children, after a surge in overall infections forced the Southeast Asian nation into lockdown.Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassi...

United Airlines aims to bring back supersonic travel before the decade is over with a plane that is currently just an artist’s drawing – even the prototype hasn’t flown yet.The airline said on Thursday that it plans to buy 15 jets from Boom Sup...

Police have arrested the vice-chairwoman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, Chow Hang-tung, on suspicion of promoting a banned annual candlelight vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.Chow, 36...

The resolve of pro-democracy Hongkongers faces a milestone test on Friday, as police enforce a ban on the June 4 Tiananmen anniversary vigil at Victoria Park and deploy thousands of officers across the city to prevent any defiant gatherings.Although ...

Health authorities in the southern Chinese megacity of Guangzhou are hoping to stem a new outbreak of Covid-19 infections through vastly expanded testing capacity and strict quarantine measures in affected areas.The industrial hub – home to almost ...

More than a dozen people were thrown out of a tour bus that crashed and rolled on a remote Utah highway in 2019, killing four Chinese tourists and highlighting a lack of safety standards for bus roofs and windows, US investigators said on Thursday.Th...

The Japanese government has placed semiconductors at the heart of its future economic growth strategy, announcing this week a research and development fund designed to attract foreign chip manufacturers and marry them with domestic firms.The plans, o...

F. Lee Bailey, the celebrity lawyer who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague said Thursday. He was 87.The death was co...

Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz warned of a more severe version of the 2008 global financial crisis by pointing out that carbon, which is priced “nowhere near” where it must be to achieve the world’s climate goals, accounts for a much ...

The United States conducted 72 reconnaissance flights over the South China Sea in May, maintaining a constant presence over the disputed waters, a Beijing-based think tank said.The South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative said in a mont...

This is the eighth in the South China Morning Post’s series of explainers about China’s Communist Party, in the lead-up to the party’s 100th anniversary in July. Here, Kristin Huang explains the important role of the party’s little-known Inte...

A “Uygur Tribunal” examining alleged human rights abuses and reports of genocide in China’s Xinjiang region begins in London on Friday.The hearings were requested by the Germany-based World Uygur Congress, the US-funded Uygur lobby group that w...

A SpaceX rocket took off on Thursday for the International Space Station carrying supplies for scientific experiments, including some surprising passengers – squid and virtually indestructible microorganisms called tardigrades.The rocket, leased by...

Six former British foreign secretaries have urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to “ensure that the crisis in Hong Kong is on the agenda” at the G7 leaders’ summit in Cornwall next week.In an open letter to the British leader, the ex-officials l...

Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is putting on the biggest show of his career, and he is doing it in a place he’s fallen in love with: Portugal.The world-renowned visual artist’s new exhibition, “Rapture”, opens in the Portuguese capital Li...

US President Joe Biden has expanded a ban that prohibits Americans from investing in Chinese companies that the administration says have ties to the Chinese military or sell surveillance technology used against religious minorities and dissidents.In ...

Britain said on Thursday that it is removing Portugal from its list of Covid-19 safe travel destinations, meaning thousands of UK residents currently on holiday there face the prospect of 10 days’ quarantine on return.Transport Secretary Grant Shap...

This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Erin Banco on politico.com on June 3, 2021.The Biden administration has announced which countries will share in the first 25 million Covid-19 vaccine doses ...

A husband and wife who run a popular tutorial school in Hong Kong have been arrested on suspicion of exaggerating her academic qualifications after it emerged that the woman, who claimed to be an academic high-flyer, was expelled from university befo...

A dissident journalist who was arrested after his plane was diverted to Belarus said in a video from prison that demonstrations against the country’s authoritarian leader had fizzled and the opposition should wait for a better moment to revive them...

The ruling Communist Party of China’s deadly 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests never ended for Fan Baolin, who served 17 years in prison and says he sneaked out of the country last year to escape surveillance that includ...

It’s the oldest intelligence network in the world, and for more than seven decades the members of the Five Eyes – the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – have exchanged surveillance information.The grouping grew out of t...

An international study on social activism, which involved a Hong Kong university, has sparked controversy in political and academic circles, with pro-establishment critics describing it as evidence foreign forces had tried to incite a “colour revol...

A website run by a group of Hong Kong activists and fugitives overseas that called for the “liberation” of the city was briefly shut down, after police wrote to the company hosting it saying messages posted there breached the national security la...

Taiwan’s government is focused on preparing itself for any military conflict with mainland China and is “absolutely committed” to defending itself, Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said in a news conference live-streamed to Tokyo on Thursday.Wu said ...

When US President Joe Biden proposed his US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package to jump-start the world’s largest economy in January, he might also have had China on his mind.Two weeks after the package was approved by Congress in March, Biden ...

With a total of 114 million fans on Twitter and Facebook, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the world’s most followed politicians, using these platforms to share everything from policy updates to selfies with foreign leaders.As his fan ...